When Shariton ‘Charlie’ Johnson found out she had breast cancer, she didn’t let it stop her family’s plans to hold a Broncos and Barrel Racing Rodeo at her Williamson home. She will have double mastectomy surgery just four days before the Saturday, Oct. 20 event but encouraged her husband and family friend ‘Wrangler’ Jim Scott to hold the event without her.
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Funerals aren’t supposed to be funny but appropriate humor can ease sad situations. People die twice. The first death comes when the heart stops, the second death when the stories and memories stop. When I share with you just one of Betty’s stories, you’ll know she’ll “live” among her family and friends forever.
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When sisters Cathy Craven and Kay Barnett of Zebulon decided to start their own business, the fork in the road took them to their shared passion and hobby: cooking. Plan to Cook was born and the sisters have just published Chocoholic’s Anonymous, the first in a series of 10 upcoming cookbooks.
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Mr. Jacob Clay Woerner, age 13, of Williamson passed away October 12, 2012. Jacob was in the 8th grade at Pike County Middle School. He loved sports and the outdoors. He attended Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Molena and was preceded in death by his grandfather, John Woerner.

He is survived by his parents, Clay and Debbie Woerner; brothers: Cole and Luke Woerner; grandparents: Fern Woerner of Hampton and Glenn and Beckie McGraw of Woodbury; aunts and uncles: Kent and Kathy Woerner of Tiger, Scott and Marianne Woerner of Sautee Nacoochee, Christi and Mark Friend of Williamson, Tammie and Steve McDaniel of Gainesville and Brian and Tonya McGraw of Newnan; great-grandmother: Kate Garner of Brooks; numerous cousins.

Funeral services will be conducted on Tuesday, October 16, at 6 p.m., at the Pavilion, 460 Aerodome Way, Griffin, GA 30223. Pastors Mark Harris and Jimmy Wright will officiate. Friends may visit the family on Monday, October 15, 4-8 p.m. at the funeral home. A private interment will be held at Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to United Bank, beginning Monday at 11 a.m., for a special project in memory of Jacob. Moody-Daniel Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.